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Meredith Q3 Earnings Rise Over 30 Percent
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Des Moines :Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP), the leading media and marketing company serving American women, today reported fiscal 2010 third quarter earnings per share grew more than 30 percent to $0.73 from $0.56 in the prior year. Total revenues increased 5 percent to $353 million.
Fiscal 2010 third quarter earnings included a net benefit...
USA TODAY daily print circulation touches 1,808,631 mark
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McLean :USA TODAY remains number one in total daily print circulation in the United States, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation report. USA TODAY’s daily print circulation was 1,808,631 for the period ending March 31, 2010.
USA TODAY’s print circulation is more than 130,000 copies per day larger than its closest competitor,...
U.K. Online Video Viewing Up 37 Percent
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London : comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service indicating that 5.5 billion videos were viewed online in the U.K. in February 2010, up 37 percent versus the previous year.
Driven by the popularity of YouTube.com (which accounted for 99.6 percent of all...
Discovery names Robert Voltaggio as SVP, National Ad Sales Pricing and Planning
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New York : Robert Voltaggio has been promoted to senior vice president, National Ad Sales Pricing & Planning, Discovery Communications. In this role, Voltaggio is responsible for all ad sales proposals and inventory portfolio management for Discovery’s 13 U.S. networks. The announcement was made by Joe Abruzzese, president, advertising...
Discovery Channel Passes 100-Million Subscriber Milestone
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Silver Spring : In its silver anniversary year, Discovery Channel has passed the 100-million subscriber mark. According to Nielsen Universe Estimates for May 2010, the network is now distributed to 100.1 million U.S. homes.
Now the second-most widely distributed cable network in the U.S., and the number one channel worldwide, Discovery Channel...
TCM Announces Plans for Second Classic Film Festival
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Turner Classic Movies (TCM), which successfully staged its first TCM Classic Film Festival this past weekend in Hollywood, has given the go-ahead for a second edition of the festival, slated to take place in Spring 2011.
TCM primetime host Robert Osborne revealed the network’s plans on Sunday night, prior to the North American premiere...
TNT Renews Southland for Third Season
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TNT has booked a third season of its critically acclaimed drama SOUTHLAND, from Warner Bros. Television and Emmy-winning producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing). The network has ordered 10 episodes for the third season, which is slated to begin airing in January 2011.
“SOUTHLAND is a challenging, visceral show that engages viewers with...
Degree’s Outdoor Advertising Campaign Freshens Up America
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New York : In April 2010, Unilever-Degree unleashed a refreshingly pleasant out-of-home campaign placed through the Chicago office of Kinetic Worldwide. The ads “bloomed” in multiple U.S. cities including Baltimore, Washington DC and New York and targeted active women by displaying their new line of scented deodorant and body...
Playboy donation saves Hollywood sign from sprawl
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Los Angeles: A $900,000 donation from flamboyant Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has saved the world-famous Hollywood sign from being bulldozed to make way for a building development, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday.
The donation by Hefner allowed the Trust for Public Land to raise the $12.5 million it needed to buy...
Dhaka overturns decision to lift ban on Indian films
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Dhaka: A 45-year-old ban on import of Indian films, which a Bangladesh ministry had decided to lift causing protests from the film fraternity, will now continue following a decision by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A minister was cited by The Daily Star newspaper Tuesday as saying that the commerce ministry’s decision to lift the ban...